The Battle of Passchendale was restaged on an Auckland farm recently for a photo shoot to capture the danger of nursing near the front line.

The new “nurses in action” photos by photographer and actor Dean O’Gorman will be added on October 12 – the 101st anniversary of the attack – to his current exhibition that is on display as part of the Great War Exhibition in Wellington.

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Kiwi photographer Dean O’Gorman seeks to show New Zealand nurses in action in First World War to add to his exhibit ‘Passchendaele – The Elusive Familiarity of War’, which is on display at The Great War Exhibition. / Video by Michael Craig

Around 843 New Zealand soldiers were killed on October 12, 1917, during the failed attack on Bellevue Spur, dubbed the country’s “blackest day”.

The Mangere farm had a section of a paddock renovated to become a casualty clearing station where O’Gorman says nurses would have received and treated injured soldiers while still within the range of the artillery.

The Hobbit star and artist wanted to recreate the danger of the role nurses carried out during WWI at the Western Front for new content for his current exhibition, Passchendaele – The Elusive Familiarity of War.

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